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12/22/2015

My Thoughts

Sometimes the memories of Holidays past turn blue as we remember friends and loved ones who have passed from this mortal coil. It seems some of the most precious memories we have can cause us to tear-up as we realize we will no longer have those great times.

That doesn't mean we won't have great times, but we can't duplicate the times we had.

In the movie 12 O'Clock High the commanding officer tells his corp the best way to accomplish the mission successfully is to think yourself already dead and to throw all your efforts in destroying the enemy (Which in this movie is the Third Reich.)

There is a similar understanding in the life we lead as Christians. The most famous saying of Jim Elliot, a missionary to the Auka Indians in South America in 1949, is:
'He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

Everyone's body will die no matter how hard you try to preserve it and yet every human being is offered eternal life in Jesus Christ. Give up your body to life as a servant of Jesus Christ with Him in your heart 'confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believing in your heart that God raised Him from the Dead and you will be saved.'

Love,
Dad